UNHCR / MEDITERRANEAN MIGRANTS

United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported today that since the beginning of 2017, almost 100,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:22
• Production Date: 22 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: MIGRANTS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: LIBYA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA
• MAMS Id: 1976955
• Parent Id: 1976955
• Alternate Title: unifeed170922m

Description

STORY: UNHCR / MEDITERRANEAN MIGRANTS
TRT: 2:22
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 17-22 SEPTEMBER 2017, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, 50 MILES OFF THE LIBYAN COAST

Shotlist

1. Close up, children on boat
2. Various shots, migrants boarding the Italian Coast Guard patrol vessel
3. Med shot, rescued migrants on the deck
4. Various shots, Oba with other migrants
5. Tilt up, migrants seating on deck to sea
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamoudou Oba, Guinean asylum seeker:
“If you stay, every day they are coming to do bad things to you. One day, one day, one day, they will kill you.”
7. Wide shot, volunteer doctor Lucia Guidolin talking with migrants
8. Med shot, Guidolin with migrants
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucia Guidolin, volunteer doctor:
“Sometimes it seems they have really used knives to torture them. The lesions are so well defined and so strange. You see that they are made on purpose.”
10. Various shots, migrants on deck
11. Various shots, Guidolin examine a migrant
12. Med shot, Italian Coast Guards transferring a child from one boat to another
13. Med shot, migrants at night on a rescue boat
14. Close up, woman on a boat
15. Wide shot, migrants on a boat

Storyline

United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported today that since the beginning of 2017, almost 100,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy.

Most are fleeing poverty and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. But, in Libya they’re caught in an endless cycle of abuse, violence and exploitation.

Mamoudou Oba, an asylum seeker from Guinea, said staying in Libya is not an option.

He said “if you stay, every day they are coming to do bad things to you. One day, one day, one day, they will kill you.”

The majority reports being kidnapped, forced into labour or sold into slavery by street gangs, smugglers and militias that operate unhindered in the lawless country.

Volunteer doctor Lucia Guidolin, who is assisting on one of the ships of the Italian Coast Guard, said she sees marks of torture on many migrants.

Guidolin said “sometimes it seems they have really used knives to torture them. The lesions are so well defined and so strange. You see that they are made on purpose.”

UNHCR estimates that over 1.3 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Libya. UNHCR calls for unrestricted humanitarian access inside the country to ensure that international protection is given to refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable people.